[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4117 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4117

     To require that an environmental impact statement be prepared 
   evaluating the impact of slot exemptions for operation of new air 
                     service at LaGuardia Airport.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 1998

  Mr. Manton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
 Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require that an environmental impact statement be prepared 
   evaluating the impact of slot exemptions for operation of new air 
                     service at LaGuardia Airport.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Airport Environmental and Community 
Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIRED.

    (a) In General.--Granting of any additional slot for operation of 
air service at LaGuardia Airport in New York shall be considered to be 
a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human 
environment for purposes of section 102(2)(C) of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)).
    (b) Slots Revoked.--Order 97-10-17 of the Secretary of 
Transportation entitled ``Order granting and denying applications for 
slot exemptions at New York's LaGuardia Airport'' and order 98-4-22 of 
the Secretary entitled ``Order granting and denying applications for 
slot exemptions at New York's LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy Airports'' 
are invalid and shall have no force or effect.
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